April 2018 TS Crossword

Try your hand at a sciency brain teaser.

Written byEmily Cox and Henry Rathvon
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BY EMILY COX AND HENRY RATHVON

ACROSS
1. Student of optometry?
4. Movement through a membrane
8. Stinky mammal not really a feline
9. When a kiwi flies
10. Trees with some slippery members
11. Cyclotron inventor Ernest for whom element
#103 is named
13. Firefly collection unit for a kid
14. Home tweet home?
17. See 13-Down
19. Viper’s and vampire’s point in common?
22. Flower cluster looking like a parasol
23. Underground rootstalk
24. Synthetic fiber a.k.a. Lycra
25. Palindromic craft of Inuit and Yupik

DOWN1. Cocoon dwellers2. Observatory operated by Caltech3. What Scots call an inlet4. Involving bones or skeletons5. Growth in a brackish “swamp”6. Number of human cervical vertebrae7. Procedure once performed by barbers12. Weasel, marten, mink, or wolverine13. With 17-Across, marine explorer and pioneer of the Aqua-Lung (2 words)15. Study of the structure of organisms and their parts16. Array of ...

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